The Arewa Consultative Forum,
ACF, on Saturday said delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, should
vote for a candidate who is a democrat.

President of ACF, Yerima
Shettima, in an interview with dailypost, stated that delegates should vote
for candidate who is determined to save the country’s democracy from those who
are “anti-democrats”.

Shettima said though all PDP’s
presidential aspirants are competent enough to govern the country, the
opposition party should ensure that only the best emerges as its candidate.

The ACF president also urged the
party to be united ahead of the 2019 polls.

According to him, “As it is now,
it may not be favourable for me to start preempting the outcome of the primary
election, all the aspirants are far more qualified than what we used to see in
PDP in terms of intellectual, capacity and good intention to move the country
to the next level.

“I think if given the
opportunity, all the aspirants will do well. I think they should be united and
come out with a more credible person so that at the end of the day all of us as
Nigerians will team behind him and save our democracy because what we are
witnessing today in this country is no longer democracy.

“This is not the kind of
democracy we fought for and gave our lives for. The major thing is to save
democracy and that is exactly what we are going to do in 2019 and I’m sure each
and every of the aspirants are good, though they cannot be equal but they are
all competent.

“Certainly, all the aspirants
can’t emerge but whoever emerges, we must ensure we rally around him and ensure
that democracy comes to stay, infact it’s no longer about PDP or APC but saving
democracy from the hand of those who are anti-democrats.

“To all the delegates, this is
the moment for us to decide, we must be sure that whoever we are voting for is
democratic, must be seen to have a good character, one without any bias and
determined to save our democracy.”